Thanks, that got it. My Motorola worked fine but I never did get anything
from the Toshiba on my linux box or any of their windows machines. The
strange thing was, I never had a problem getting a cable light on either
one. Oh well, hopefully TW won't give them too much hassle when they try
to swap it out.
Brian Swick
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Robert Kennedy wrote:
>
> My toshiba works like a charm in Windows and Linux (using pump).
> I have noticed that if I switch it back and forth between machines it
> needs a reset to clear whatever it uses for an arp cache.
>
> I think your best bet would be to call up TW and report it. It's their
> equipment after all. They'll probably just give you a Motorola but
> there's a tiny chance they may know some other fix. Also have them check
> the line. The toshiba seems more sensitive when the signal strength gets
> low. Your friend may just have some older traps in his cable box or a
> really cheap splitter that's losing too much signal.
>
> I was one of the first in my area to get on the newer docsis network with
> a toshiba modem, and it's been working just fine for ~5 months now. In my
> area at least, it was a 1000% improvement because due to a shitty
> overloaded router (my gateway) my latency to everything was >500ms. Now
> it's always <30ms, usually <15ms, making interactive login sessions
> tolerable.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert Kennedy
>
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Brian Swick wrote:
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> > Has anyone had a problem with the toshiba modems? I don't know how long
> > TW has been giving them out but we have an old Motorola here and a new
> > Toshiba at my friend's place. Anyway, I threw together a gateway for them
> > to network several machines and it worked fine here while I was building
> > it(3c509's and pump w/ RH 6.2), but I get nothing from the Toshiba. Does
> > pump not cut it anymore?
> >
> > Brian Swick
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